Create a Course with Campus!
Erin Crisp
November 11, 2021

Create a Course with Campus!
Online courses can be leveraged in a wide variety of ways to improve educational experiences for students of all ages. Campus is offering course development grants to help fund high-quality learning opportunities for students and faculty from CCCU and ABHE colleges and universities. Campus courses are designed to be efficient and effective learning experiences but also, to appeal to learners of all ages. Professional quality video paired with thoughtful assignment variety produces learning experiences that delight students and create raving fans of faculty who author courses with the Campus Studios team. See some examples of Campus courses here: http://www.campusedu.com/courses
Grant Objectives
Campus has 3 objectives to accomplish with the funding being provided:
- Increase the diversity of schools and scholars represented in the Campus catalog of course offerings.
- Resource creative ideas for the online delivery of science, technology, engineering and mathematics at the undergraduate level as well as dual enrollment high school students.
- Identify faculty and institutions who are interested in innovating online course developments that are scalable while also maintaining effectiveness and high appeal.
Available Funds
Five grants in the amount of $25,000 each to assist with the development of online courses. Faculty and administrators from Christian colleges and universities are encouraged to apply. Grant funds can be allocated toward any of the following:
- Stipend for faculty course author
- Allocation for institutional overhead and administrative expense
- Travel reimbursement
- CampusEdu Videography services- editing and post-production
- CampusEdu Instructional Design- including digital asset creation
- CampusEdu Graphic Design- brand and visual design
- Permits for video capture
- Copy editing and eBook publishing
Grant funds should not be used for the ongoing delivery and maintenance of the completed course. See sample budget Appendix A.
Application Components
- Complete the online form and submit the following attachments:
- A general budget
- A draft course syllabus or the syllabus for the existing course (in-person or online).
- Note: If there is an existing online version of the course that can be exported from the institution’s LMS via a course cartridge, this can reduce expenses related to instructional design.
Evaluation process
Campus team members will use the Campus course development framework to evaluate proposals. Successful proposals will describe how the criteria described in the framework will be accomplished.
The general budget shows costs associated directly with criteria from the framework. Please review the course development framework carefully to ensure that you are prepared to address every aspect of the framework within the scope of your proposed course development project.
Timeline:
- Collect grant proposals: November 15th -- December 10th, 2021
- Evaluate proposals: December 13th -- December 20th, 2021
- Deliver notification of accepted proposals: December 21st, 2021
- Accomplish the proposed grant work: January 3rd, 2022 -- August 1st, 2022. Courses could be ready to launch anytime within this timeframe, no later than August 2022.
Final Outcomes
Produce online courses that will be made available through the Campus platform as well as possibly the author’s own institutional LMS. The institution retains all intellectual property rights for the courses. Campus licenses the course content from the institution and remits a percentage of the sale price to the institution and author for each enrollment that occurs through the Campus network of schools. The authoring institution and faculty author may choose to offer the course to their own students using the Campus delivery platform and their own institutional LMS at no charge.
Instructional Delivery
By offering a course on the Campus platform, authoring institutions agree to the following, provided a minimum number of enrollments is reached:
- Designate a qualified instructor for the course (it need not be the author).
- Provide compensation for the faculty delivering instruction (from generated revenue)
- Create transcript records for guest students taking the course, and transcript grades for guest-student course completers.
- Use data provided from Campus to ensure continuous improvement of the course.
Ongoing Revenue from Campus
Authoring institutions choose the wholesale price and course start dates for their courses sold on the Campus Learn platform. These start dates and charges are different from their courses delivered on their own LMS.
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Appendix A
Expense | Amount | Paid To: |
---|---|---|
Stipend for faculty member | $2,500 | Author |
Allocation for institutional overhead | $2,000 | Institution |
Travel reimbursement | $1,000 | Payee |
> Filming in Atlanta, GA for 1 day | ||
Videography- editing and post-production | $10,500 | Campus |
> Video trailer 1-2 minutes | ||
> 7 Instructional videos, 10-20 min each | ||
Instructional Design- including digital asset creation | $5,500 | Campus |
> Alignment of learning outcomes to assessments | ||
> Refined assignment instructions | ||
> Pedagogically sound rubrics and grade structure | ||
> Authentic and relevant assessment design | ||
> Creative use of instructional technology | ||
Graphic Design- brand and visual design | $2,500 | Campus |
Permits for video capture | $500 | Campus |
Copy editing and eBook publishing | $500 | Campus |
NOTE:
Proposal budgets should also show how the elements of the course development framework will be addressed. As an example, bullet points from the framework are provided under each category of work.
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